Henrik Jonsson wrote: >There's definitely a difference between being "merely" Dzur and >being a Dzurlord, right? Between being "merely" a Dragon and >a Dragonlord, n'est pas? So, why is this distinction so sorely >lacking in all the other Houses? > I'm not so sure about that. My impression is that all Dragons, and all Dzur, are lords. At the other end, no Teckla are lords, and no Teckla can be emperors; hence the Teckla Republic. It has not been Revealed >from the Oracle as to the exact situation in the intermediate houses. Tiassa can be lords, so can Athyra (I would suspect they all are), and we have heard, I think, of Orca nobles, as well as any number of Orca thugs and seamen. I've never heard of a Jhegalla lord, or a Chreotha. There are definitely Hawklords, if my memory serves me correctly. As far as Phoenix go, there are only ever a tiny number of them; I would think they must all be nobles. There does seem to be a heierarchy of Houses, and I suspect that the nobility of the highest members is dependent on the position of the house. I have not bothered to look anything up on this . . . my impressions only. Mia